“These Wrinkles Shouldn’t Exist” – A Geologist’s Hike Uncovers a 180-Million-Year-Old Mystery

Deepwater rock wrinkles likely formed from chemosynthetic microbes, not just physical processes, reshaping assumptions about ancient ecosystems. In 2016, geologist Rowan Martindale was hiking on a hillside in Morocco when she noticed something unusual: a slab of sedimentary rock marked by a wrinkled surface that resembled elephant skin. “I looked at the wrinkles, and I [...]

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